Ooooh, look! My new order of spring seeds arrived from pinetree garden seeds (SuperSeeds.com) in Maine. They changed their packaging this year to be on-trend with American Apparel and all that other 80’s worship neon-faux cali surfer crud. You’ll also see sprouting mixes in the back for homemade sprouts. Kinda

a fresh bag of farmer’s market goodies from timor market! collard greens (again) and fresh cilantro. i might be turning green from eating collard greens – yes I know they’re good for you and all, but brassicas are seriously too much after a while. so green, so fibrous,, so sulfurous.

paperwhites! they are so pretty and smell so good. unfortunately, i only get one blooming out of them and i don’t have more bulbs to “cycle through” to get constant blooms until spring. these were started by my mother before christmas in a dark room until they had little green

dbaldwin: What is completely constructed of steel, reinforced with corrugated steel walls, able to withstand winds up to 140 mph, and can make a comfortable living space for the survivors of the Haitian earthquake? A standard shipping container. And researchers at Clemson University are scurrying to figure out how to

Gift from Thailand! Liz’s awesome package came through today and I can’t even describe the amazing Engrish-amazingness and creatureness of the collection. I can start with this plastic makeup/pencil case entitled “Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf”. Siggggh.

More treasures from Liz’s package from Thailand – this is sticky notepaper portraying a chick (with pig nose/fangs?) biting a (bear?)’s tail/foot as he peeps in surprise. Good ness gracious I wish my office could buy a dozen of these!

My sad little “indoor winter garden” on the table in our living room, the only place in the house that gets light (a few hours a day …). You can see the paperwhite/Narcissus bulbs are growing. The shorter ones were in my bedroom but not doing well so I had